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Arts
Movie Review: 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'
I walked out at the end of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," shoulders hunched and head shaking. I had such hopes it would validate the months I'd been talking up the novel on which it w...
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Police & Fire
Spotsylvania Sheriff Launches Summer Program For Youth
Spotsylvania County Sheriff Roger Harris and his deputies are launching a new summer program for youth with classes on bullying prevention, gun safety, Internet safety and five other topi...
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Arts
Movie Review: 'Brave'
The first film from Pixar with a female protagonist is well worth seeing, even if only to celebrate a positive and complex portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship represented in the...
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Sports
UMW Soccer Coach To Lead Fredericksburg HotSpur
University of Mary Washington's men's soccer coach Jason Kilby will also lead the Fredericksburg HotSpur, a rapidly expanding Premier Development League team. Kilby was already a Fre...
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Police & Fire
Odd Substance In Waterways Was 'Harmless Biological Formation'
The unusual substance found in the Rappahannock River and other Fredericksburg waterways that stumped local officials in May was actually a harmless biological formation similar to algae,...
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Opinion
Review: 'Seeking a Friend for the End of the World'
Chances are, if the world was coming to an end, you already know who you would spend those last moments with. Not everyone is that lucky. There will be a contingent of people...
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Arts
South Carolina Americana Songwriter to Play at Library June 25
A singer-songwriter who Vintage Guitar Magazine calls a female version of Steve Earle is performing June 25 at the Fredericksburg downtown library for its "Music on the Steps" program....
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Summer
Happy Father's Day to 70 Million Dads
The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day...